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The Principles of Agile Planning

Strategy Driven

The systems are sophisticated and project environments bigger and more distributed than ever before. Here is how to use smart planning to make strides toward greater agility and market success. Put a well-functioning system in place, which is geared toward learning and evolution. Account for continuous change in your strategies.

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

It is, unfortunately, also a great analogy for how many organizations have constructed their IT systems. Their structure emerged and continues to evolve without any blueprint or architectural integrity. Systems are implemented to support local initiatives. Many organizations are in a similar situation.

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Advanced Analytics Are Crucial to Digital Transformation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business Review

Insurance carriers, which famously clung to decades-old legacy hardware and software, are wholeheartedly embracing analytics-driven systems to target profitable market segments, speed claims payments, reduce fraud, and increase the number and degree of fully automated processes.

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Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Another endorsed “willingness to learn and adapt to changing environments,” and a third urged “adaptability, the ability to operate in multi-cultural environments and the openness to learn.” Some argued that merely keeping pace with industry and market changes is inadequate; an executive must anticipate change.

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Research Shows Immigrants Help Businesses Grow. Here’s Why.

Harvard Business Review

Hiring immigrants may help you build the organizational muscle of adaptability that will enable your company to be more receptive to, and act upon, the continual change that is required of businesses today. They orient their firm around the needs of their home market alone. Diversity and inclusion.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Here’s why: “Most organizations see leaders'' as drivers of results - exceeding sales quotas, deepening market share, boosting profits, etc. Given the pace of change, complexity of business, ever-shifting markets, and escalating expectations (just to name a few), the only sustainable advantage an organization has is its people.

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The Big Picture of Business: Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques. Professionals Who Go the Distance.

Strategy Driven

Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality. Their market value is set by the seller, who often is an appreciator or, at the least, has a profit motive. The right settings in which to showcase the product.